Cirrus@Austlit

An anonymously edited collection of of action and adventures stories from writers such as Frederick R. Bechdolt, T. Jenkins Hains, Tom Roan, Frank Markward, J. J. Bell, John T. Rowland, Ernest Haycox, Francis H. McMahon, Joseph C. Lincoln, James Francis Dwyer, Albert Richard Wetjen and Don Waters.

Popular and influential American science fiction magazine, which ran from January 1930 (under the title Astounding Stories of Super-Science) through to October 1960, when its title was changed to Analog. It underwent other minor name changes throughout its history. The longest-running continuously published science-fiction magazine, Astounding focuses on the science and technology aspects of science fiction ('hard science fiction').

Of the original incarnation of the magazine, Mike Ashley writes:

'It is with Astounding that science fiction's fate became sealed. Astounding was first and always a straight adventure pulp magazine. It had no intention of educating through science [...]. Whilst both Science Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories were publishing their share of poor science fiction, their ideals in the field had remained noble. Astounding's never were. Its aim was to tap into the popularity of science fiction and make what profit was possible'. (The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950, Liverpool University Press, 2000, p.69).

After the shift in publishers to Street & Smith in 1933, though, Ashley notes that the magazine gained an editor (F. Orlin Tremaine) who

'expanded Astounding to be a magazine with hardly any apparent editorial taboos. In addition Tremaine was a conscientious and skilled professional editor, and Street & Smith was one of the oldest and most venerable of all magazine publishers with a large distribution network and sound financial backing' (The Time Machines, p.85).

Title changed to Excitement from July 1930 and to College Stories from May 1931.

New Story Magazine started out in 1905 as Gunter’s Magazine, a Home Publishing venture. Following Gunter's death in 1908 the magazine was acquired by Street and Smith. In 1910 Chicago publisher, LaSalle bought the magazine and for its first issue (October) renamed it the New Magazine but with the old Gunter’s logo as a shadow behind the new name on the cover and contents page (elsewhere in the issue only the new title was used). The magazine's association Gunter effectively ended with that issue, volume 12 number 3. The very next issue restarted the numbering at volume 1 number 1, and dropped all mention of the former title.

In 1911, exactly a year later, LaSalle added 'Story' to the title. Although it remained the New Story Magazine after being re-purchased by Street and Smith in 1912 the name was changed one last time in 1915. The All Around Magazine continued as a Street and Smith publication until being closed down in 1917.

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Gunter’s Magazine was started in February 1905 by the Home Publishing Company (owned by Archibald Clavering Gunter). After Gunter died in 1907 the company passed through the hands of a Receiver, ending up at Street and Smith with the May 1908 issue. Chicago publisher LaSalle took over the magazine with the October 1910 issue and changed the title to The New Magazine. That issue featured the old Gunter’s logo as a shadow behind the new name, on the cover and contents page only; everywhere else in the issue only the new title was used. This magazine’s run effectively ended with that issue, volume 12 number 3. The very next issue restarted the numbering at volume 1 number 1, and dropped all mention of Gunter’s.

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The first three issues were published as a boys' magazine. After converting to a men's fiction pulp from February 1904 it found success with the inclusion of H. Rider Haggard's 'Ayesha' (1905) and subsequently went on to carve out a niche as a middle-of-the-road family magazine. The Popular Magazine also published works by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Morgan Robertson, H. G. Wells, Rafael Sabatini, Zane Grey and James Francis Dwyer.

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'Set in the charming and deadly streets of Melbourne, this vivid and brilliantly plotted murder thriller tells the story of a crime committed by an unknown assassin. With its panoramic depiction of a bustling yet uneasy city, Hansom Cab has a central place in Australian literary history and, more importantly, it remains highly readable. ' (Publication summary)

Ainslee's Magazine was an American literary periodical that began in 1897 as a humor magazine called The Yellow Kid (based on the popular newspaper comic strip character) and shorlty afterwards as The Yellow Book. It was renamed Ainslee's Magazine the following year, and given a new format and numbering. At first Ainslee's was a general-interest magazine, with articles and stories, but in late 1902 it changed to an all-fiction format. At that time its title was also reduced to just Ainslee's.

Among the authors to have their works published in Ainslee's were: Stanley J. Weyman, Bret Harte, Anthony Hope, Stephen Crane, Jack London, some of the earliest stories by O. Henry, Albert Payson Terhune, I.A.R. Wylie, E. Phillips Oppenheim and Francis James Dwyer.

The magazine continued through until December 1926, after which it was merged into Far West Illustrated.